ZoneAlarm Pop-ups

Hello, forum.

I've been a happy user of ZoneAlarm Free for many years, and recommended it to many people. Probably this makes me a terrible skinflint and someone who shouldn't expect too much for the pound they're not spending, but I'm curious as to why ZA has suddenly started subjecting me to pop-up ads (I should clarify, these are ads for ZoneAlarm, notification of ZA surveys and so on, not third-party companies and products).

It's not that I mind advertising, particularly, as long as it's not too intrusive; I figure I'm getting something for nothing so the least I can do is put up with the occasional banner or whatever.

My problem is in the fact that, as I would have thought a security company would realise, pop-ups are the enemy. Pop-ups are a threat. They're often used as a happy, trojan-horsey way in to someone's computer and I don't understand why ZoneAlarm wants to put users - even tight-fisted Free users - in the position of having to click on an unsolicited pop-up, even to dismiss it?

Re: ZoneAlarm Pop-ups

First off these are not classified as pop up ads where your going to get infected with a Trojan or something malicious as you suggest.

These are not pop ups like a browser pop up as your describing.

This is a messaging system built into Free ZA and not web page pop ups.

They come from us they will not have Trojans, viruses or any thing malicious.

Your using a Free product and we reserve the right to market our own paid products to you since thats the only way to continue a free product is to convert a certain percentage of users to a paid product.

Were sorry you don't like it or if you feel its advertising but your using a Free security program getting top notch protection a few messages about upgrading to our paid software is not much to put up with for something you can use for years for free.